High-Energy Aspects of Solar Flares: Overview of the Volume

Abstract

In this introductory chapter, we provide a brief summary of the successes and remaining challenges in understanding the solar flare phenomenon and its attendant implications for particle acceleration mechanisms in astrophysical plasmas. We also provide a brief overview of the contents of the other chapters in this volume, with particular reference to the well-observed flare of 2002 July 23

This is the introductory article for a monograph on the physics of solar flares, inspired by RHESSI observations. The individual articles are to appear in Space Science Reviews (2011)

References in corpus (3)

• An Observational Overview of Solar Flares
• Impulsive phase flare energy transport by large-scale Alfven waves and the electron acceleration problem
• Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from γ -Ray and Neutron Observations

Cited by in corpus (10)

• Implications for electron acceleration and transport from non-thermal electron rates at looptop and footpoint sources in solar flares
• Turbulent pitch-angle scattering and diffusive transport of hard-X-ray producing electrons in flaring coronal loops
• How Electron Two-Stream Instability Drives Cyclic Langmuir Collapse and Continuous Coherent Emission
• How Anomalous Resistivity Accelerates Magnetic Reconnection
• Anomalous Cooling of Coronal Loops with Turbulent Suppression of Thermal Conduction
• Electron Two-stream Instability and Its Application in Solar and Heliophysics
• NuSTAR Observation of Energy Release in Eleven Solar Microflares
• A Brief Review on Particle Acceleration in Multi-island Magnetic Reconnection
• Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)
• First Detailed MeerKAT Imaging Spectroscopy of a Solar Flare